Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Bahrain and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Sixth Finger to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doobie Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Michelle Simonal,
The Black Dice,
Q and Not U,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy Collins,
cv313,
the Slits,
The Gladiators,
Connie Case,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Judy Mowatt,
Alton Ellis,
Todd Terry,
Sixth Finger,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Associates,
Arthur Verocai,
Unrelated Segments,
H. Thieme,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Loose Ends,
Tommy Roe,
Ornette Coleman,
Japan,
Vainqueur,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
B.T. Express,
Moss Icon,
Freddie Wadling,
EPMD,
Zapp,
The Residents,
Susan Cadogan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Malaria!,
Index,
Surgeon,
Essential Logic,
The Electric Prunes,
MDC,
Rapeman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Second Layer,
Q65,
Das Ding,
the Swans,
Mission of Burma,
Brass Construction,
Camberwell Now,
Delta 5,
Crooked Eye,
D'Angelo,
Camouflage,
Altered Images,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Searchers,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.